026Composure
Cool grey and white, one blue for where you are, and a quiet monochrome glyph set that tells each list apart by fill.
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make my desktop app in 026
The signature
Calm comes from restraint: a cool grey sidebar against a white page, a single sans in a handful of sizes, generous fixed spacing, and almost no colour. Lists are told apart by one monochrome rounded-square glyph whose fill says the time horizon (tray = inbox, solid = today, half = this week, dashed = later, ticked = done); the one blue marks only what is current.
Credit
After Things by Cultured Code (culturedcode.com/things), chosen by the DevThrottle Design Factory Curator as the reference for calm, native desktop apps. Visit culturedcode.com
The preview is our own re-making in free fonts, with our own sample content. Nothing from the source is shown here.
Palette
- desk (backdrop)#E6EAEE
- sidebar#F2F5F7
- paper#FFFFFF
- ink#303336
- ink-2#44474B
- muted#55606E
- faint#63666B
- rule#DFE3E8
- selected (neutral)#E3E7EC
- accent blue#4F91FB
- blue text#2B64C1
- blue wash#DCE8FD
- glyph#6B7580
Fonts
- DisplayInter700
- TextInter400, 500, 600
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